NEW PAPER: competences for managing sustainability transitions through urban planning

The purpose of this post is to summarise a new paper which has just been published in Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. The paper, titled ‘Management of sustainability transitions through planning in shrinking resource city contexts: an evaluation of Yubari City, Japan’, looks at the actions undertaken at the municipal level in Yubari City,… Read More NEW PAPER: competences for managing sustainability transitions through urban planning

March 8, 2018 Leslie Mabon1 Comment

Progressing CCS in Japan – December 2017 Visit

For the past week I’ve been in Japan for a series of carbon capture and storage-related events, largely linked to Japan’s recent successful endeavours in deploying CCS technology in the ‘real world.’ The Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project, up in Hokkaido in the north of the country, in November 2017 celebrated injecting its 100,000th tonne of… Read More Progressing CCS in Japan – December 2017 Visit

December 20, 2017December 21, 2017 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Japan’s first large-scale CCS demonstration: the social side

This post summarises another paper out this month. This is an investigation into the social dimensions of the Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project, Japan’s first large-scale carbon capture and storage project. What is the key point of this paper? The key point of this paper is that carbon capture and storage – a potentially crucial low-carbon… Read More Japan’s first large-scale CCS demonstration: the social side

June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Yubari, Aberdeen and industrial decline

This is a piece I wrote for The Scotsman a couple of months back, on what Aberdeen and north-east Scotland can learn from the decline of coal and steel manufacturing in the south of Hokkaido. Given recent political events and the perceived role of post-industrial areas in swelling political trends, I thought this was worth… Read More Yubari, Aberdeen and industrial decline

November 11, 2016 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Tomakomai: a guide for visiting CCS researchers

As the site of a fairly large-scale offshore CCS demonstration – one of the first of its kind in the world – Tomakomai is going to become an increasingly important place for international CCS researchers. Now that injection of CO2 has started, there is hopefully going to be interest in – and opportunity for –… Read More Tomakomai: a guide for visiting CCS researchers

July 19, 2016May 20, 2018 Leslie Mabon3 Comments

Initial reflections on Tomakomai fieldwork

At 5.30am last Sunday I dragged my luggage – all 32 kilos of it – across Tomakomai and onto the train bound for New Chitose Airport. Two things in that tell you a lot about the kind of place Tomakomai is. One is that it took half an hour to get to the station from… Read More Initial reflections on Tomakomai fieldwork

May 25, 2016 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Tomakomai fisheries and the CCS project

Today’s fieldwork involved a visit to the Tomakomai Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations. This was one of the most important pieces of work I’ve done on this project so far, as it hammered home just exactly what is at stake when we undertake carbon dioxide storage in a marine environment. Fisheries are hugely important to… Read More Tomakomai fisheries and the CCS project

May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Consensus and environmental governance – day 1 report

Day 1 of the GB Sasakawa Foundation-funded UK-Japan Workshop on Consensus-Based Environmental Governance is in the can – and what a day we had. Those of the UK contingent who had arrived they day before were now feeling more awake after a long sleep and full breakfast, and we headed en masse through the green… Read More Consensus and environmental governance – day 1 report

May 7, 2016 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

Social Aspects of CCS in Japan – Fieldwork Weeks 1 and 2

The first two weeks in Japan have shot by and tomorrow I head to Tomakomai, which makes this a good time for reflection/update on how the first two weeks of ‘CCS in Japan’ fieldwork, funded via the UKCCSRC International Collaboration Fund, have gone. This time two weeks ago I was about to enter Russian airspace.… Read More Social Aspects of CCS in Japan – Fieldwork Weeks 1 and 2

May 1, 2016May 1, 2016 Leslie MabonLeave a comment

UK-Japan Workshop on Consensus-Based Approaches for Environmental Governance – Live-Streaming of Talks

Next weekend – Saturday 7 May to Monday 9 May – Taisuke Miyauchi and I will be co-convening a UK-Japan Workshop on Consensus-Based Approaches for Environmental Governance, which is possible thanks to the generous support of the GB Sasakawa Foundation. This will be held on the campus of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. This is envisioned… Read More UK-Japan Workshop on Consensus-Based Approaches for Environmental Governance – Live-Streaming of Talks

May 1, 2016May 1, 2016 Leslie Mabon1 Comment

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